USSTRATCOM
• Command authority over space forces and assets
USAF
- DoD’s Executive Agency for Space
- Director of Space Forces
US ARMY
Lead agency for SHF
Operate 4 RSSCs
- Stuttgart, GE [EUCOM, AFRICOM]
- Wheeler Army AF, HI [PACOM]
- Peterson AFB, CO [NORTHCOM]
- MacDill AFB, FL [CENTCOM, SOCOM, SOUTHCOM]
Operate 5 wideband operations centers
- Ft Detrick - Maryland
- Ft Meade - Maryland
- Landstuhl, Germany
- Wahiawa - Hawaii
- Okinawa, Japan
Provide space based missile detection capabilities
USN
- lead agency for narrowband UHF
- Satellite operations for narrowband at NAVSOC
NAVNETWARCOM
- the Navy’s central authority for space
- CBSP manager
- SATVUL Packages
- Space Effect Packages
Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Altitude: 95-1500 km
Period: 90-120 minutes
ISR
SATCOM: IRIDIUM
ENVIRONMENT: POES, Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP)
Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)
Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)
Altitude: 20,000km
Period: 12 hours
PNT, GPS
Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO)
Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO)
Altitude: 36,000km
Period: 24 hours
ISR: Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP), Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS), Advanceed Technology Risk Reduction (ATRR)
SATCOM: AEHF, MILSTAR, WGS, DSCS, UFO, MUOS, FLTSATCOM
MW: Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS), Defense Support Program (DSP)
ENVIRONMENT: GOES
Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO)
Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO)
Altitude: 400km perigee, 40,000km apogee
Period: 12 hours
ISR
SATCOM: EPS (Enhanced Polar System)
10 Space Operations and Functions
- Weather (Environmental Monitoring)
- ISR
- Missile Warning
- PNT
- SATCOM
- Space SA
- Spacelift
- Nuclear Detonation Detection
- Space Control
- Satellite OPS
Space Control
The purpose of these operations is to achieve space superiority
- Offensive Space Control– deny adversary freedom of action in space
- Defensive Space Control– ensure freedom of action in space for the US and its allies
3 Segments associated with space systems
- Ground - ground-based facilities and equipment
supporting C2 of space segment - Link - consists of signals connecting ground and space segments
- Space - Satellites and spacecraft
UHF Satellites
UFO, MUOS, FLTSAT (Legacy)
SHF Satellites
WGS, DSCS
EHF Satellites
MILSTAR, AEHF
JP 3-14
Joint Publication for Space Operations
WHAT IS THE NAVY OPERATIONAL CHAIN OF COMMAND FOR SPACE
NETWARCOM ► 10th FLT ► STRATCOM
SATVUL
Satellite vulnerabilities; mitigate vulnerabilities to satellites
SATVUL package provides info on enemy reconnaissance satellites
Safe Window Intelligence (SWINT) which are periods when the requesting unit is not vulnerable to reconnaissance satellites.
